CHR chair held for 6 hours at Malaysia airport on arriving for democracy forum

MANILA, Philippines — Commission on Human Rights chairman Jose Luis Martin “Chito” Gascon said Saturday he had been denied entry for six hours at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport as he arrived in Malaysia Friday to speak at a regional conference on democracy issues in Southeast Asia.

Gascon said he had been “invited to speak at a regional conference hosted by the Kofi Annan Foundation and SUHAKAM (our counterpart, Malaysia’s CHR).”